I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is a time in every mans education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is a deliverance which does not deliver.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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